Daily routine in Portuguese

March 19, 2014

Shall we learn the vocabulary to describe your daily routine in Portuguese?
What is your daily routine? What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?

Daily routine in Portuguese

What defines a routine? Habits, appointments, activities, actions that you do on a daily basis, right? To communicate and learn a new language such as Portuguese it is very important to know how to talk about these types of things.

To describe your daily routine in Portuguese you will need to know some specific words and expressions as well as certain verbs and adverbs. That’s what we are going to learn in this Portuguese lesson.

Verbs to describe a daily routine in Portuguese

Acordar	Wake up
Levantar	Get up
Tomar café	Eat breakfast
Fazer o café	Make breakfast
Escovar os dentes	Brush the teeth
Tomar banho	Take a shower
Ir	Go
Almoçar	Have lunch
Jantar	Have dinner
Dormir	Sleep
Trabalhar	Work
Se vestir	Get dressed
Se arrumar	Get ready
Chegar	Arrive
Sair	Leave
Ir se deitar	Go to bed
Assistir TV	Watch TV
Malhar/ se exercitar	Workout
Estudar	Study
Conversar	Talk to
Sair com os amigos	Go out with friends
Ler	Read
Fazer compras	Go shopping
Passear com o cachorro	Walk the dog
Pentear o cabelo	Comb your hair
Se barbear	Shave
Passar maquiagem	Put on makeup
Voltar	Return
Pegar o ônibus/metrô	Take the bus/subway
Comer	Eat
Beber	Drink

Adverbs to describe a daily routine in Portuguese

To talk about your routine you must know the adverbs so you can say how often you do a specific thing. Let’s learn:

Cedo	Early
Tarde	Late
De manhã	In the morning
À tarde	In the afternoon
À noite	At night
Hoje	Today
Antes	Before
Depois	After
Às vezes	Sometimes
Sempre	Always
Nunca	Never
Raramente	Rarely
Normalmente	Normally
Geralmente	Usually
Diariamente	Daily
Em seguida	Afterwards

Days of the week

Now you know what to say and you can say how often you do something, but can you specify on which day of the week you do each thing? Studying in Brazil can be a part of you weekly routine!

Segunda-feira	Monday
Terça-feira	Tuesday
Quarta-fera	Wednesday
Quinta-feira	Thursday
Sexta-feira	Friday
Sábado	Saturday
Domingo	Sunday

Example about daily routine in Portuguese

Let’s see a small text that describes the daily routine of a carioca. Let’s read the text below:

Todo os dias eu acordo às 7 da manhã, levanto, tomo banho, me arrumo, tomo café da manhã e saio de casa para trabalhar. Sempre vou para o trabalho de ônibus. A viagem leva 30 minutos mais ou menos. Ao meio-dia, eu almoço e converso um pouco com os meus colegas. Geralmente vamos a um restaurante perto do trabalho. Eu trabalho até as 5 da tarde. Eu sempre pego um ônibus lotado para voltar pra casa. Quando chego em casa, janto e depois pratico esportes na academia. A academia fica muito perto da minha casa então eu vou e volto a pé. Depois da academia como um sanduíche natural e bebo um açaí com banana. Geralmente, durmo às 10 horas da noite.

Translation of the text

Everyday I wake up at 7 in the morning, get up, take a shower, get dressed, have breakfast and leave my house to go to work. I always go to work by bus. Commuting takes roughly 30 minutes. At noon I have lunch and talk to my colleagues a little bit. We usually go to a restaurant close to work. I work until 5 in the afternoon. I always catch a packed bus on my way home. When I arrive home, I have dinner and after that I practice sports at the gym. The gym is very close to my house, so I go and come back on foot. After the gym I eat a sandwich and drink an açaí with banana. Usually, I go to sleep at 10 o’clock at night.

What about you? How is your daily routine?
Did you know that most cariocas use Facebook before going to bed? It is part of our routine to be always connected! Are you like that too?

Until the next Dica, friends!

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